"You didn't do much training today, why do you feel so tired?"
"I'm starving. I must have three bowls of rice when I go home tonight."
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The sky was getting dark, and the players of the Qingcheng Volleyball Club walked out of the venue one after another. Many members of the second team were complaining. I don't know why, but they always felt that today's training was particularly intense.
The main players sat slumped on the floor of the venue, too tired to speak.
Sweat soaked his clothes and left thigh marks on the ground.
"Am I out of my mind? Why do I have to compete with these two lunatics?"
Several main players felt a little doubtful about life. In fact, at the beginning of the training, Iwaizumi was just competing with Akashi Asuka, so the training intensity was slightly increased.
But as I practiced, my style of painting gradually started to feel wrong.
At first, the comparison was just about the rhythm of the smashes, but later it was not known who moved the ball first, and the power of the two smashes also began to slowly increase. Unknowingly, the training intensity of the others was also further increased...
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"By the way, that guy doesn't want to practice anymore, does he?"
Someone saw Akashi Asuka pushing a basket of balls alone behind the baseline of the court, and he suddenly spoke in horror.
"It's impossible! No matter how strong his physical strength is, it's impossible..."
Bang!
Before Matsukawa Kazuki finished speaking, he saw a muffled "bang" sound coming from the court in front of him. It was clearly the sound coming from Asuka Akashi's practice serve.
Songchuan Yijing's words were stagnant, and his mouth felt a little dry: "Hey, hey~~ Really or not, is this guy really a 'monster'?"
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Akashi Asuka is very tired.
And I was tired and hungry.
But there is no way, the people in Qingcheng are really good at getting involved.
In today's training, even though Akashi Asuka worked very hard, the average training intensity was only 10 to 20% more than others. Even the most basic [low-level involution] was still far behind.
In other words, today’s [Volume King Value] gain is 0.
Akashi Asuka has always been very self-aware, and he does not deny his own efforts, but his current strength obviously cannot be achieved without the help of the system.
The system's evaluation criterion is the strongest one-way player among the members of the same team.
Junior high school stage.
Because everyone is in the third grade of junior high school, even if we don't rely on the system, the physical gap between us is not very big.
But in high school, although Hanamaki Takata, Matsukawa Kazushi and others did not have strong talents, they had trained for two more years than Akashi Asuka, so it was obviously very difficult to compete with them in terms of training efficiency.
The only way to win may be to use training time to win.
The strongest serve in Aoki is Oikawa Toru, but he was asked to leave by the coach not long ago, so Akashi Asuka must take advantage of this time to practice more balls.
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"Iwaizumi, Oikawa, next week I plan to play a few practice games with people from other schools. This will allow the newcomers to quickly adapt to the high school competition environment and prepare in advance for the next league. Do you have any good suggestions?
?" Iriyata Nobuteru said.
"Coach, has any school contacted us now?" Iwaizumi thought for a moment and asked.
"Well, there are quite a few schools that want to contact us for practice matches recently..." Nobuteru Iriyata rummaged around on his desk and found a list.
"Strong players including Izumi, Dewa Kazu, and Shinzanko are all preparing for the next high school league. In addition... Shiratorizawa has also invited us to go to their school to play a practice match next week."
The moment the name Shiratorizawa was spoken, Oikawa Toru and Iwaizumi's expressions froze at the same time.
After all, let’s talk about it.
Aoba Jonishi and Shiratorizawa are old enemies.
Although Aoba Josai is nominally the top four in the prefecture, to be precise, the reason why they failed to advance every time in the past two years was all because of Shiratorizawa.
So now every time I hear the words "Shiratorizawa", all the players in Qingcheng feel an uncontrollable impulse.
"First of all, we can accept Shiratorizawa's invitation."
Iwaizumi was the first to speak, and his words were unanimously agreed by Oikawa Toru and Iryhata Nobuteru.
It's not just the players.
As a coach for two whole years, Shiratorizawa has been suppressed by him. It is obviously impossible for Irimata Nobuteru to say that he has no resentment at all.
"I can agree to Izumi and Dewa's invitations. Their schedules are very relaxed and will basically not affect our daily training. Playing more games will also help the newcomers adapt to the high school competition environment as soon as possible." Oikawa Tetsu.
He touched his nose and gave some suggestions after thinking about it.
Iriyata Nobuteru nodded and agreed.
"Then······"
Oikawa Tooru wanted to say something, but at this moment, he suddenly saw a familiar yet unexpected name on the list.
"Coach, can we arrange a match against Karasuno next?"
"Karuno?"
Iriyata Nobuteru was slightly startled.
It's not that he hasn't heard of this name before. After all, although Karasuno has been called 'the fallen mighty man and the crow that cannot fly' in recent years, that is only for students.
In fact, for a coach like Nobuteru Irihata, a few years are just a blink of an eye, so he still remembers the glorious period of Karasuno very clearly.
"A few years ago, Karasuno was indeed very strong, but in the past two years, I remember that this school's record was only good or not. Why do you want to compete with them?"
"Actually, I have a very interesting junior student who seems to have joined Karasuno this year."
"Oh~~You're talking about Kageyama, right?"
The memory of Kageyama Tobio and Irahata Nobuteru is also profound, because after graduating from junior high school, Qingcheng also recruited Kageyama Tobio, but at that time, like Akashi Asuka, he also refused the special recruitment.
"Yes, I am very curious now, what kind of strength will my "King" junior student have after joining Karasuno?" Oikawa Tetsu said, with a slight arc at the corner of his mouth.
Irimata thought for a moment, and then said: "In that case, let's add Karasuno to the alternative school!"
This matter is not a big deal. After all, although Karasuno is not strong, his record in recent years is not very weak. If he is just an opponent in practice matches, it is more than enough.
Afterwards, Nobuteru Irihata discussed with Iwaizumi Iwa and Toru Oikawa about the distribution of personnel for the subsequent practice matches and other issues, and then let them leave.
Return to the volleyball court.
Asuka Akashi has finished serving the 100 serves for extra practice, and is packing up his things with Ryuhei Sange and preparing to leave the venue...